“I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ou...” — Wes Studi Quote

“I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here, and it was practically a segregated kind of thing.”

“I think that the idea of sharing is something that has been lost in our social conscience, and we need to re-think that. We need to learn a new way.”

“I tried bull-riding... I wasn't good at all: I don't think I ever got eight seconds anywhere. But then, after that, I discovered acting through community theater.”

“I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.”

“Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.”

“We have made the decision that we're going to take some key products, such as the Wrangler and the Grand Cherokee, and protect those as being true American icons: produce them in the U.S. and make them available nowhere else.”